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SME is unleashing its breadth and depth of manufacturing content into a powerful, user-friendly, 24-7 online resource. Everything you want to know about manufacturing is available when you want it, where you want it.

NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.

Take Part in Newest Member Engagement Opportunity at SME!

Dear SME Member:

My name is Charles Caristan, a community advisor for SME’s Forming & Fabricating Community. I wanted to share goods news on the latest engagement opportunity at SME — theManufacturing Knowledge Base Wiki. At the core of the new manufacturing wiki is the nine-volume, encyclopedic-printed reference source, SME’s “Tool & Manufacturing Engineers Handbook.” These uniquely valuable handbooks have been digitized into a new Web-based manufacturing knowledge wiki.

This drive to digitization opens up opportunities for contemporary updates of both content and format. To that end, I am leading the effort to appoint technical experts in forming and fabricating subject matters. This represents a great opportunity for you to make an impact on how things are made by publishing content related to forming and fabricating.

As an SME member with forming and fabricating interests, I am calling on you to participate in one of these opportunities:

1. Contribute technical content. You can start any time — just login at sme.org/wiki.aspx.2. If you are savvy at providing technical reviews, you could become a reviewer. 3. If you have editorial experience, you could become an editor. 4. If you know of people who are subject-matter experts in manufacturing, recommend them to SME for appointment as such.

The F&F Community’s goal is to appoint technical experts in major categories and subcategories, and encourage each member to contribute new entries into the manufacturing wiki. Click here for technical categories. If your technical area does not appear, that just means you can start a new category, and be the first to contribute in it within established guidelines for publishing in this wiki.

The goal is to effectively enrich the topic, while efficiently utilizing your valuable time and knowledge.Also, please consider how to insert topics you have previously written with relatively little modifications or rewriting into the digital manufacturing resource.

Thank you for consideration of your time and expertise in this important new member engagement opportunity.